Free

I am out of the hospital and starting to get back to normal. I went in to the doctor and my blood pressure was 220/93. Yeah not good. So they sent me straight over to the hospital where my lovely room was waiting for me. I told the lady at admissions desk I didn't need to check in they already had a room for me and she said "everyone has to check in here first." I said nope I have a frequent stay card that gets me expedited services and I kept walking. I don't think she was very impressed. I had a very nice nurse to start with but I could tell she was still pretty new. It took 3 nurses each trying 3 times before they finally called the flight nurse to start my iv. I had angioplasty on Friday afternoon and it was the worst I can ever remember. My doctor said I had some really bad scar tissue on the arteries to my kidneys and they were really narrowed. My kidneys hurt so bad until saturday morning. I still have a little pain but it's no where near as crappy as I was feeling. I also had an iv iron transfusion while I was there. I am so anemic and it makes a huge difference in how I feel when I can have that done. My doctor said he is going to get insurance to pay for it 4 times a year (the most it can be done). I'm looking forward to not being tired all the time. By the time I was released from the hospital my blood pressure was back down to 116/60 so a ton better! Now I just can't lift anything heavy and have to take it easy this week and hopefully by next week I will feel like a whole new person!

One Guess

I will give you one guess where this gentleman in my story spends ALOT of his "spare" time.

I was at Target today. (I HEART Target, great retail therapy) I went to check out to see if there were any great Halloween clearance items and also to check on a shirt for Gray for our pictures tomorrow. Well I found her a shirt but the Halloween stuff still has not been marked down (weird). Well I go and check out and pay for my things and the guy turns and says "Thank you your honor, have a nice day." Well since I was not dressed up as a judge today (I know weird!) and the fact that we were not in a court room I can only guess what he's stressing about.

Never have to say

A 29 year old should never have to turn to her husband in bed and say I think it's time for another angioplasty. But for whatever reason this is my life. I have a doctor's appointment this afternoon with my cardiologist. I'll either be admitted to the hospital right then or I will be scheduled to come back the next day. I know how this works unfortunately. It was even worse at 17 years old. You would think I would be used to it by now.
I don't talk a lot about my disease. It's not because it doesn't effect me or my life because it does each and every day but it's mostly because if I don't think/talk about it it's easier to pretend it doesn't exist. I look fine from the outside so I try to force myself to put on the happy face. The way I feel about being sick is really hard for me to express. I hate it. I don't talk about it with anybody. I have a secret blog that I have posted on that is just me venting about this whole mess. For my peace of mind, to educate others and for my journal's sake I plan on trying to talk more about it here. I promise to not make this a totally depressing blog and have this consume my life but I do plan on sharing more about me and my thoughts. So here is to more enchanted tales, thanks for reading!

Off

I just sat down to come up with a great post since I've been a slacker recently and I just got asked out on a lunch date by this handsome boy so the post will have to wait.

Now taking Applications

Since my good friend Heather and her hubby have decided to go on a wonderful adventure they are trying to sell their home. I love their house! So as sad as I am to see them go I'm excited (and jealous) of their new adventure but I thought I would help them get the word out about their home for sale. If you know anyone looking pass on the link. They have to fill out an application with me first :) (j/k) but I want good neighbors!

October!!!

I am so excited for tomorrow. I love everything about October. I have been busy collecting new Halloween decorations as well as making some new crafts. I love the fall air (hate the cold and snow that comes after it but oh well) and the yummy food (I HEART pumpkin anything!). I have been checking out Halloween books from the library for a few weeks already. Today we picked up the movies Legend of Sleepy Hollow and The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown. I love the ages my kids are at because they are equally excited and whenever they see anything Halloween related they get all excited to get my attention and show me. We have their Costumes and I plan on putting out our decorations tonight. Tomorrow to celebrate the month we'll probably watch one of our movies we checked out and eat Maple Bars and Hot Cocoa.
The Halloween Costumes I remember
E.T. & Wonder Woman The costumes back then were the plastic mask held on with the elastic string and then the plastic body suit that tied on over your clothes. I'm not sure why I remember those two. It may have been that they were the ones that were out so we played dress up in them. I wish I still had them oh what fun I could have.
I'm still trying to decide whether I am going to dress up this year or not. I have the perfect Belle (Beauty and the Beast) dress. Maybe I can talk the Mr. into being Gaston or the Beast.
What are your favorite costumes from your childhood? Do you love Halloween as much as I do? Are you dressing up this year? and if so as what?

Nie Nie

I have been one of the many, many followers of Nienie Dialogues. As the silent auctions have been going on I have been again frustrated with my lack of talent in the creative, craft sense. All these wonderfully talented people that can give so much to help a family in need. I finally got over feeling sorry for myself and decided to find something that was one of my favorite things (yeah, like Oprah) to auction off. I have many favorite things so narrowing down was hard but I finally decided on Modbe True Rise Denim.
I have not been the same since these jeans made thier appearance. I no longer have to hold my shirt down when I bend over or sit down. I no longer have to pull my pants back up when I stand back up. I have all the benifits and cut of a low rise jean but with a higher back (that is "tatooed" oh so cute by the way) so they stay put. Modbe just relelased their Denim cutt offs with a new wash that is so fun.
If you are interested on bidding on a pair to help out Nie Nie go here. Thanks Leslie! Leslie obviously gets quite a bit more blog traffic than I do so I decided to put them up for bid on her site. She has raised over $3000 since the beginning of September and she's still going strong.
As I've read on many other blogs doing auctions don't think of it as buying something for more than you would at the store. Think of it as one of those memberships places that for your donation that will help so much you get a free pair of awsome shorts (or the car catch-all I'm currently bidding on.)